IT department and web sites

The IT department is usually the biggest roadblock to having a successful web site.

Since they are left brained, they have no sense of style or taste. They have no idea about marketing.

They limit your access, make things more difficult to do and usually because they are far from being experts at managing a web site.

It is about control, empire building, and security concerns with no expertise on how to deal with those concerns.

Anyway, the big fight is between marketing and IT for control of the web site. If you want to hire an outside company to do your web site, let them handle everything. IT will make you pay more, get less and in general be a monkey wrench in the works.